“Cal Poly faculty and staff have legitimate reasons to be angry
about compensation. As administrators of a state-funded
university, my leadership team and I have been forced to make
difficult choices,” he wrote. “Those decisions can be scrutinized
from many different perspectives, but they are based upon what we
believe will drive the success of our students and university as
a whole.”

“If you hadn’t had a raise in years and your new boss suddenly
hired scores of bosses with astronomic salaries, then gave them
whopping raises, all the while double-talking about his
commitment to you, how would you feel?” wrote Kevin Clark and
Harvey Greenwald. “After eight years of salary stagnation, Cal
Poly’s faculty is challenging the outrageous 30 percent increase
in yet more bosses, not to mention their huge salaries and brazen
salary increases.”